2019 List of Regulated or Illegal Aquatic Plants

Please help us protect our environment and the aquatic plant industry by not purchasing plants that are considered illegal or invasive in your state. Not all aquatic plant companies comply with federal and state regulated and illegal pond plant laws. Companies that do not comply, can cause invasive species outbreaks and ruin ecosystems. As a result, some states are now considering a ban of all aquatic plant sales as statewide law. Never release non-native aquatic plants into natural lakes, streams, or other waterways. We do our best to keep this list up to date, but plants are constantly being added to the growing list of illegal plants.

If you order a plant that is illegal for us to ship into your state, we will try to contact you by email to discuss suitable substitutions for the illegal plant you ordered. If we are unable to contact you, rather than hold up your plant order, we will substitute the plant with a similar plant that we are able to send to you legally.

NOTE: Not all illegal plants are listed here. We only list the illegal plants that we sell on our website. There may be other illegal plants in your state, but we do not include them, as we do not offer them on the site.